1. If an ox or a sheep has something wrong with it, don't offer it as a sacrifice to the Lord your God—he will be disgusted!
4. So when you hear that someone in your town is committing this disgusting sin, you must carefully find out if that person really is guilty.
13. When other Israelites hear about it, they will be afraid and obey the decisions of the court.
14. People of Israel, after you capture the land the Lord your God is giving you, and after you settle on it, you will say, “We want a king, just like the nations around us.”
15. Go ahead and appoint a king, but make sure that he is an Israelite and that he is the one the Lord has chosen.